Community Resources
OBIS
OBIS allows users to search marine species datasets from all of the world's oceans. It allows to identify large-scale ecological patterns, analyze dispersions of species over time and space, and FP7-283644 iMarine Combination of CP & CSA plot species' locations with temperature, salinity, and depth. The OBIS schema is a list of data fields with names, descriptions, and format notes. It is an extension to the Darwin Core Version 2 standard. Darwin Core is a Biodiversity informatics data standard that consists of a vocabulary of terms to facilitate the discovery, retrieval, and integration of information about organisms, their spatiotemporal occurrence, and the supporting evidence housed in biological collections. The Darwin Core profile is expressed as an XML Schema document for use by the DiGIR (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval) protocol.
Darwin Core is based on the principles of Dublin Core and decouples the definition and semantics of individual terms from application of these terms in different technologies such as XML, RDF or simple CSV text files. It not only allows on sharing data through a dynamic DiGIR provider, but also offers RESTful, OAI and OGC services. It's going to be used to enrich the data sets accessible through the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem with biodiversity metadata and content from multiple research areas.
FAO-IOC/IODE
FAO-IOC/IODE The United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE collaborate to provide information on standards and controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences. They produced a customized version of DSpace called OceanDocs for the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) and adapted it to the standards of the Oceanographic community. The OceanDocs Network, created in 2004, now has some 50 members. The FAO customized DSpace using the AGRIS Application Profile (AP) and is developing a plug-in for the use of controlled vocabularies for communities in food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences such as AGROVOC.
The communities of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE active in oceanography and food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences will provide open access to their literature stored in those repositories. They will use the same standards for metadata, thesauri and other ontologies ensuring advanced access to the scientific publications in the field and the possibility to create new services for their researchers.
IRD
IRD focuses on data discovery by implementing different metadata standards like Dublin Core (RDF schema) and ISO 19115/39 for spatial data as well as several TDWG standards that implement the GBIF profile of EML (Ecological Metadata Language). The main datasets produced by IRD (Observatoire Thonier) are already described with RDF Dublin Core metadata and tagged with URI. Also IRD reuses or plans to develop ad hoc ontologies (OWL) and to use entities URIs in the ontologies to tag metadata. The GBIF IPT is an open source, Java (TM) based web application that connects and serves three types of biodiversity data: taxon primary occurrence data, taxon checklists and general resource metadata. The data registered in a GBIF IPT instance is connected to the GBIF distributed network and made available for public consultation and use. These resources is going to be accessible from the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem under a Federated Model.
FAO Corporate Document Repository
The FAO Corporate Document Repository maintains FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications. It offers a standardised interface to access this repository of objects produced by FAO directly on the Internet. The Aquaculture, Fisheries Management and Conservation, Fisheries Policy and Planning, Biodiversity, and Climate Change collections are all relevant to the Ecosystem Approach envisaged by the CoPCommunity of Practice.. Those collections will become accessible from D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem under a Federated Model.
FAO Fisheries Global Information System (FIGIS)
The FAO Fisheries Global Information System (FIGIS) was established to offer reliable, high-quality and relevant information on the state of world fisheries and support the Code of Conduct For Responsible Fisheries that represents the basis for policies aimed at sustainable fisheries. FIGIS is an information management tool that interconnects groups of institutional partnerships to build up a network of subsystems. FIGIS, as part of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department's regular activities acts as a framework with reference to FAO information management policy. FIGIS delivers expert knowledge, a set of software tools, collaborative mechanisms, and interoperability solutions to a broad range of needs in fisheries information. With the adoption by the Committee on Fisheries of the Strategy for Improving Information on Status and Trends of Capture Fisheries (STF) on 28 February 2003, FIGIS becomes one of the privileged tools for its implementation. The services offered by FIGIS will be integrated and made accessible from the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem under a Federated Model to offer a web-integrated fisheries information system.
